A young mother has been left terrified after an intruder gripping a mallet snuck quietly through her family home, coming within metres of where she and her young child were sleeping.

In a chilling twist, it was only when the woman checked security cameras hoping for answers about her missing possessions that she realise an uninvited visitor had been so close.

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“(I’m) very scared because I don’t know when he (went) into the room because I fell asleep,” Huong told 7NEWS.

“I’m very panicked because if I (had woken) up, maybe he (would have attacked) me.”

The man stole a phone after walking through an open back door at the home in Ballajura, in Perth ’s north, early on Thursday morning.

Not yet done, he returned and entere

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